Quotes About Decision-making

I really didn't know If I wanted to pursue the Olympics for wrestling. I didn't know what to do with my life. So, I prayed about it. My manager called me a few weeks later and asked if I wanted to fight. I agreed to give it a shot, and I went out and got knocked out.

Changing leaders is pointless if the same policies are pursued.

I've always said yes to films because I have liked the people I'm working with. I'm very emotional that way about what I do. I've never pursued acting very actively.

I'm not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn't. But as an activist, as a woman, I would say the choice of being a housewife or pursuing a career should be left entirely to the woman and that choice should be respected.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

I will not even tell my daughter to get married if she does not find her life partner. I would rather push her for education and financial independence.

I'm a risk-taker because I don't have a lot of experience in putting up a business before - I didn't really learn about this in school - but I still choose to do it, especially since I'm now getting good advice from people around me.

Family's number one; just, that's flat out it, and I think a lot of people, when they're put in a certain position, will come to that conclusion, and you'll just do whatever.

I think teams make the same decisions every year based on the same information and based on the same decision-making. I think a lot of it is flawed, but it's the way they draft.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

The most important reason why it's dangerous to risk all your chips pre-flop is that you simply can't be certain that you are even in a coin flip situation at that time.

'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

Playing deep-stack, no-limit hold'em is a very complex game where the most critical and difficult decisions come after the flop.

I'm just going to continue to make good plays. Making the right decisions, good decisions with the ball so my team can play with a great flow.

It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.

Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with your life in a particular way.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

The economy of film forces you to make choices.